Mooring vs Brooding - What's the difference?
mooring | brooding |
A place to moor a vessel
The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.
(figuratively) Something to which one adheres to, or the means that help one maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc.
*1890 , John George Nicolay and John Hay,
*:The party of pro-slavery reaction was for the moment in the ascendant; and as by an irresistible impulse, the Supreme Court of the United States was swept from its hitherto impartial judicial moorings into the dangerous seas of polities.
*1898 , "
*:Friendship from its moorings strays,
*:Love binds fast together;
*:Friendship is for balmy days,
*:Love for stormy weather.
(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 22, author=Jon Caramanica, title=Once-Dreamy Indie Rockers, Masking Hurt With High-Gloss Sheen, work=New York Times
, passage=The lyrics are different: gone are the dreamy, un-self-conscious proclamations of affection from the EP (which was reissued with additional tracks), replaced with vividly dark broodings , thick with doubt and fear.}}
As verbs the difference between mooring and brooding
is that mooring is while brooding is .As nouns the difference between mooring and brooding
is that mooring is a place to moor a vessel while brooding is a spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.As an adjective brooding is
(of a bird) broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.mooring
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(en adjective)- A brooding hen can be aggressive.
- You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep .
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